Forward into Fall: Literary Criticism & Essays
Edited by Dick Donahue Compiled by Alia Akkam, Robert Dahlin, Charles Hix, Natalie Danford, Liz Hartman, Lauren Joyce, Hilary Kayle, Suzanne Mantell, Diane Patrick, Karole Riippa, Judith Rosen, Oona Short, Skip Skwarek, Julie Stevenson and Michelle Wildge -- Publishers Weekly, 8/6/2007
Harcourt
Turning Back the Clock: Hot Wars and Media Populism (Nov., $27) by Umberto Eco shares his thoughts on taste, politics, education, ethics and the future.
Heyday Books
Heirlooms: Letters from a Peach Farmer (Oct., $21.95) by David Mas Masumoto, illus. by Doug Hansen, recounts life as an organic farmer in a series of essays.
Frances Lincoln
(dist. by Antique Collectors' Club)
Why Not Catch 21? The Stories Behind the Titles (Oct., $16.95) by Gary Dexter details the genesis of 50 great titles of world literature.
Northwestern Univ. Press
Melville: The Making of the Poet (Dec., $32.95) by Hershel Parker explores Melville's literary development.
Shoemaker & Hoard
The Selected Letters of Wallace Stegner (Nov., $30), edited by Page Stegner, looks at the writer's life through letters written between 1933 and 1993.
Univ. of Michigan Press
American Audacity: Literary Essays North and South (Dec., $29.95) by Christopher Benfey. The newest entry in the Writers on Writing series casts new light on some of America's literary masters.
